Mary Rose O.

Mendoza

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1. Summary about events before and during Rizal's time.

An American squadron under the command of Commodore

July 8, 1853 Matthew C. Perry re-opened Japan to the world.

February 19, 1861 The liberal Czar Alexander II issued a proclamation emancipating
22,500,000 serfs to appease the rising discontent of the Russian
masses.

April 12, 1861 The negro slavery in the United States erupted.

June 1, 1861 Benito Juarez, a full blooded Zapotec Indian was elected president of
Mexico.

June 19, 1861 The birth of Rizal, the American Civil war was raging furiously in the
United States on the negro Slavery.

September 22, 1863 President Lincoln issued his famous Emancipation Proclamation
freeing the Negro slaves.
June 12, 1864 Emperor Napoleon III of the Second French Empire with his
imperialistic desire to secure a colonial stake in Latin America
invaded and conquered Mexico. He installed Archduke Maximilian
of Austria as puppet emperor of Mexico.
May 15, 1867 Juarez, with U.S support, defeated Maximilian's French forces in the
Battle of Queretaro.
June 19, 1867 Execution of Maximilian (Rizal's sixth birthday anniversary).

January 18, 1871 The Prussians led by Otto von Bismarck, the “Iron Chancellor”
defeated France in the Franco- Prussian war and established the
German Empire with King Wilhelm of Prussia as the First Kaiser of
the German Empire.
January 1871 Germany became a sovereign state.

August 25, 1885 A German warship, the Ilties, entered the harbour of Yap.

October 25, 1885 The Holy Father, after careful study of the pertinent documents
submitted by both parties, issued his decision favoring Spain --
recognizing Spain's sovereignty over the Carolines and Palaus, but
granting two concessions to Germany.